Summary

• Journey to the West influenced multiple games beyond Sun Wukong, showcasing various facets of the novel.
• Black Myth: Wu Kong brings a stoic interpretation, while other characters from the novel are also featured.
• Enslaved: Odyssey To The West stands out as the sole Western-made game with creative liberties inspired by the epic.

Journey to the West is o☂ne of the great epics of Chines💛e history. Written sometime in the 16th century, the novel is a dramatisation of the accounts of Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk who travelled from China to India. Needless to say, Journey to the West takes some liberties in its adaptation.

While everyone knows about the loveable and deeply mischievous Sun Wukong, less is known about the rest of the novel. It's at times a comedic work, and other times deeply spiritual. There are many facets to it, plenty of which have lent themselves to games. Here are some games based on the novel that aren't exclusively abou🎐t Sun Wukong.

8 Journey To The West 𒆙

Yeah, it's pretty hard to deny the inspirations behind this one. Journey to the West is a free-to-play mobile game, that has more recently 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:also launched on Steam, if t💧hat's your preferred platform for this kind of ga♊me.

It's 🧜a deck-builder featuring ꦏmany of the characters from Journey to the West and has a genuinely enticing art style. Of course, it also includes some microtransactions mainly focused around its playable characters, though you can at least still get some good fun out of it without spending.

7 Black Myth: Wu K🅘ong

Journey to the West is an old novel, and its inspirations are innumerable across the entirety of Asia, though its prevalence in the West is a more recent phenomenon and a lot of that attention was generated by one game - 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Black Myth: Wukong.

Having a💖 massive g🎶ame coming out from the country that wrote the original novel is a great thing, though their own creative liberties paint Sun Wukong as a decidedly more stoic character than he is in the novel. At least you get to meet many of the other characters from the novel as well.

6 👍 The Monkey King: The Legend Begins

Back in 1988, the video game Cloud Master was released for the Famicom and a handful of other gaming consoles for the time. It was a successful game pulling some very specific segments from Journey to the West, though it took some strong liberties of its own. It was, however, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:exclusive to Japan.

In 2008, a remake titled The Monkey King:🦩 The Legend Begins was released for the Wii. It was very much the base game at its foundations though feature💧d an updated art style and a Western release, allowing even more people to witness its side-scrolling take on Journey to the West.

5 Ether Sa😼ga Odyssey

Ether Saga Odyssey, also known as Ether Saga Online, was a free-to-play MMORPG that pulled heavily from Journey to the West from its aestheꦓtics and themes. Though it didn't feature the same story or characters, it had clear๊ influences all the same.

You could play as a variety of different races in the game and could even have some pets to join you on your🦂 own journey. The ga♔me was unfortunately shut down by its original developer in 2016, though it still lives on in various fanmade forms.

4 ♐ Saiyuki: Journey West 🦂

While Journey to the West may be a Chiꦆnese novel, it has been a massive influence on works across the entire length of Asia. One such country that has made many adaptations, be they faithful or loose, is Japan. Saiyuki: Journey West for the PS1 is just such a game.

Launched in 1999, Saiyuki takes plenty of gameplay inspirations from the likes of Final Fantasy 𒊎T෴actics, though weaves a story that is undeniably Jourജney to theꦺ West. Featuring characters and style taken directly from the novel, it weaves a story that is only roughly similar to the original novel.

3 🔯 Lunar: Eternal Blue ಞ

Lunar: Eternal Blue serv𒐪es as a sequel to Lunar: The Silver Star, both games released for the Sega CD. At the time of Lunarꦜ: Eternal Blue, the game employed advanced tech in the CD format and various other aspects that boosted its retail price dramatically. So where's the Journey to the West inspiration here?

It's a very specific aspect of this game. The core themes of Lunar: Eternal Blue are about battling against an arrogant, oppressive god. The writer of the game, Kei, Shigema, stated that this idea came specifically from a scene in Journey to the West w𒅌here Sun Wukong mಌust break free from the hands of the Buddha.

2 ౠ Drago🐠n ball

Plenty of people know the name Sun Wukong, and while fewer know his origins in Journey to the West, it's not e🅷xactly hidden information. What's lesser known is that to the general awareness of the story in Asia, plenty of cultures have their own pronunciations for many of its characters. Such as a name you may well have heard of - Goku.

While in the West, Goku is a name associated with Dragon Ball, the name is literally the Japanese transla🎃tion for Sun Wukong. With that awareness, it becomes exceedingly obvious eve♌rything that Dragon Ball has pulled from Journey to the West. It is ironic for the inspiration to have larger cultural awareness internationally than the novel that inspired it.

1 𒐪 Enslaved: Odyssey To The West ꩲ

This game stands out amongst the many works inspired by Journey to the West in a few ways, but here's the most notable - it's the only one ma𝔉de by a Western Studio. Enslaved꧋: Odyssey to the West doesn't shy away from its inspirations in its title, though it definitely takes some creative liberties in its own rendition of the work.

Set in, um, America 🌃150𝔍 years in the future from our own time, Enslaved Odyssey has you take on the role of Monkey as you protect Trip on your own journey to the pyramid in the West. There's little in the way of comedy or magic on display here, yet you can't deny, despite deviations, that it is indeed inspired by Journey to the West.

Mo🉐nkey is also played by Andy Serk🔴is, for some reason his favourite type of role to play.